Manga and Comic Reviews
If you’re familiar with mangaka Hitoshi Iwaaki’s great, overlooked series “Parasyte,” then the premise behind this series may ring a few bells. Hikaru is a highschool girl who broadcasts her social aloofness to the world by wearing headphones everywhere she goes. She’d be perfectly happy without getting to know the rest of her classmates until […]
… and now we wait. Longtime readers and listeners will know that I think mangaka Kentaro Miura’s “Berserk” is pretty damn incredible. You’re also probably aware that I’ve expressed some concern with how the series will read now that Dark Horse is no longer releasing volumes bi-monthly now that they’ve caught up to the series […]
“Rebirth” also had another goal besides re-establishing Hal Jordan in the DCU: To see if enough people would buy a series with him in it to make re-launching “Green Lantern” feasible. Now I’m fairly certain they were going to do it regardless of how the series sold… but imagine for a moment if it had […]
I’m sure that the behind-the-scenes editorial wrangling that led to Hal Jordan falling from grace as Green Lantern, becoming the villain Parallax, dying and becoming a host for the Spectre, before being coming back to life to pick up where he left off would make for a good book. I’d certainly like to know how […]
Yup. I’m still reading this. It’s funny because when you look at what’s happened in the past eleven volumes it seems like a lot. The problem is that it doesn’t feel that way as you read each individual volume, as I tend to breeze through them in less than half an hour. Still, we’re at […]
I’m sure that I’m reading “Bokurano” right now for different reasons than the majority of its American audience. Having seen the anime adaptation that came out a few years back, I’m more interested in seeing how it deviated from its source material. After all, not many directors go public with their dislike of the manga […]
When the patriarch of the Locke family is killed by one of his former students, the rest of the family decides to head back to their home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. As Robert Crais noted in his introduction to this book, if you’re planning on putting your life back together you DON’T move to a town […]
(Or, “Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 23” for those of you keeping track at home.) After the hiccup that was “Ultimatum,” writer Brian Michael Bendis sweeps most of it under the rug and gets back to telling stories about comics greatest hard-luck superhero. On one hand, he’s now appreciated by NYC’s police force. On the other, he […]
Twenty months after the arrival of vol. 3, the fourth volume of “Ghost Talker’s Daydream” has finally arrived on American shores. For a while I’d figured that this series had gone the way of other Dark Horse Manga titles like “Satsuma Gishiden,” MPD-Psycho” and “Eden” and been quietly “cancelled.” I was disappointed that we weren’t […]
I should’ve written this review right after the one for “Counter X” but nearly a decade went by before someone decided to bring back Nate Gray. This makes me look good in comparison… right? Aaaaaaaaanyway… This mini-series was spun out of the events of “Utopia” after Norman Osborne decided to create his own team of […]